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Originally Posted by hevusa
You might not, but a scientific study does...
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Yeah, and the statistics may or may not speak for themselves. I'm dubious about ideas of intelligence being this quantifiable entity that we're able to gauge with an IQ test or some other experiment. The thing is, once we start pulling the whole religion versus science thing we end up with an irreconcilable mess that only
ultimately serves to gratify both sides. that's why i prefer to equate religion with the (equally unquantifiable) field of philosophy: as a way in which we might try and understand the world we live in.
But if we are going to take scientific evidence as any kind of barometer then surely we'd need to know the nature of the religious society in which those questioned lived. A position of disbelief to someone in Utah may simply be a sign that they go against an orthodoxy, which could be considered a sign of intelligence. But then it could be said that a person who lives in Minnesota who supports the Chicago Bears exhibits similar qualities and I doubt whether many people would argue that Bears fans are inherently more intelligent than Vikings ones.